Abstract
Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, by Aaron Kamugisha
Highlights
The primary aim of Beyond Coloniality is a “meditation” on the “state of tragedy and crisis” in which the postcolonial Caribbean finds itself today
The Caribbean state, the middle classes, states of tradition and modernity are all engaged through their discursive representations
The most obvious of these are the paths that it opens between the discursive aspects of his major players and factors, and the discourses of the larger Caribbean intellectual tradition
Summary
The primary aim of Beyond Coloniality is a “meditation” on the “state of tragedy and crisis” in which the postcolonial Caribbean finds itself today. He engages in excellent “close readings” of C.L.R. James and Sylvia Wynter with the hope of securing glimpses of a better future for the region. Kamugisha enlists the aid of a number of other important scholars, including David Scott, Percy Hintzen, and Jacqui Alexander, adopting from Scott the strategy of reading through James and Wynter to grasp glimpses of our future.
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